Matt Stromberg is a freelance visual arts writer based in Los Angeles. He is a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic and is also an associate instructor in Art at Mt. San Jacinto College.
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This Sunday, the Brand Library is hosting Herstorians, a panel discussion on the opportunities, challenges, and obligations that female arts writers have to examine underrepresented artists.
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In Asher Hartman's play Mr. Akita, artist and performer Cliff Hengst discusses the nature of art with a silent Op art painting by Emily Joyce.
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Tonight, the Hammer Museum is hosting the panel discussion Standing Tall for Tribal Rights, held in conjunction with the current retrospective of the work of Jimmie Durham.
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At Printed Matter’s annual event, some of the highlights were objects that expanded upon the idea of what books can provide: an affordable means to experience and collect art.
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On February 25, Durden and Ray will open its first gallery with an exhibition that introduces the work of 12 of its member artists.
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Despite her unorthodox path, Jamillah James has established herself as a curator to watch.
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When the Artists' Political Action Network held its first public meeting, it was met by protesters from the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement.
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Organized by longtime purveyor of art books and ephemera Printer Matter, the LA Art Book Fair returns to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA this weekend for its fifth annual edition.
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Aria Dean's upcoming lecture at Machine Project, "Busta Rhymes at the End of the World," will focus on apocalyptic themes in the rapper's oeuvre.
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After months of protests, a Boyle Heights art nonprofit has decided to leave the contested neighborhood that activists say is being gentrified with the help of the art community.
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Instructions to All Persons at the Japanese American National Museum looks back at Executive Order 9066, which was signed by President Roosevelt 75 years ago.
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In the late 1960s the West Coast media collective Environmental Communications shot hundreds of thousands of slides of the everyday and alternative architectures around them.